Seven Maine roads -- 522 miles of nationally recognized awesome

Let’s get it right out of the way that Maine’s National Scenic Byways are gorgeous.

But it helps to be more than just a looker to get on the list.

A route might have historic importance. Unlimited recreational opportunities. A slice of local culture unavailable anywhere else.

And if you can bring it all home with a great name, well then the tourists, and the Mainers, will surely come.

“The Bold Coast was a piece of land in Cutler, Maine, that ended up being renamed the Cutler Coast,” said Fred Michaud, Maine Department of Transportation’s scenic byways coordinator, talking about one of Maine’s newly minted strips. “The (name) Bold Coast was laying there on the landscape, waiting to be used.”

Read more: https://www.sunjournal.com/2021/03/07/seven-maine-roads-522-miles-of-nationally-recognized-awesome/
(Lewiston Sun Journal)